ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Joe Pacheco is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY.

His first feature documentary, AS SMART AS THEY ARE: THE AUTHOR PROJECT focused on the band One Ring Zero and their collaboration with McSweeney's Publishing and several noted authors including Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody and Jonathan Lethem. The film screened at over thirty film festivals worldwide, winning "Best Feature Documentary", "Best Music Documentary", "Best of Fest" and "Audience Award".

His photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions including the “Life of the City” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and featured in various publications including X-Ray Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Gurdian (UK).

He is also the founder and curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series and has served as juror, programmer and panelist for many film festivals and institutions.

His second feature documentary, AFTER THE FALL, follows two American journalists to Vietnam for the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and explores the cultural, political and personal implications of the war and its profound impact on their fathers.